ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE EVALUATION TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Biosphere - ✔✔the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other
planet) where living organisms exist.
✔✔Ecosystem - ✔✔a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms
with their physical environment.
✔✔Biotic Factor - ✔✔a living part of an ecosystem.
✔✔Abiotic Factor - ✔✔a nonliving part of an ecosystem.
✔✔Organism - ✔✔A living thing.
✔✔Species - ✔✔group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
✔✔Population - ✔✔a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area.
✔✔Community - ✔✔(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same
region and interacting with each other.
✔✔Habitat - ✔✔Place where an Organism lives.
✔✔Natural Selection - ✔✔a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best
adapted to the environment.
✔✔Evolution - ✔✔change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern
organisms have descended from ancient organisms.
✔✔Adaptation - ✔✔inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of
survival.
, ✔✔Artificial Selection - ✔✔selection by humans for breeding of useful traits from the
natural variation among different organisms.
✔✔Resistance - ✔✔ability to tolerate a chemical or disease.
✔✔Archebacteria - ✔✔prokaryotic live in harsh enviroments.
✔✔Eubacteria - ✔✔True bacteria.
✔✔Fungus - ✔✔decomposer.
✔✔Protist - ✔✔algae and protozones.
✔✔Gymnosperm - ✔✔cone bearing plants.
✔✔Angiosperm - ✔✔flowering plants.
✔✔Invertebrate - ✔✔animals without backbones.
✔✔Vertebrate - ✔✔animals with backbones.
✔✔Photosynthesis - ✔✔plants using sunlight to make food.
✔✔Producer - ✔✔makes it's own food.
✔✔Consumer - ✔✔must find and eat food.
✔✔Decomposer - ✔✔breaks down dead organisms.
✔✔Cellular Respiration - ✔✔how an organism uses food for energy.
✔✔Food Chain - ✔✔pathway of energy tranfer by feeding.
✔✔Food Web - ✔✔a diagram of feeding relationships.
✔✔Carbon Cycle - ✔✔the organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into
organisms and back again.
✔✔Nitrogen Cycle - ✔✔the transfer of nitrogen from the atmosphere to the soil, to living
organisms, and back to the atmosphere.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Biosphere - ✔✔the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other
planet) where living organisms exist.
✔✔Ecosystem - ✔✔a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms
with their physical environment.
✔✔Biotic Factor - ✔✔a living part of an ecosystem.
✔✔Abiotic Factor - ✔✔a nonliving part of an ecosystem.
✔✔Organism - ✔✔A living thing.
✔✔Species - ✔✔group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
✔✔Population - ✔✔a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area.
✔✔Community - ✔✔(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same
region and interacting with each other.
✔✔Habitat - ✔✔Place where an Organism lives.
✔✔Natural Selection - ✔✔a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best
adapted to the environment.
✔✔Evolution - ✔✔change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern
organisms have descended from ancient organisms.
✔✔Adaptation - ✔✔inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of
survival.
, ✔✔Artificial Selection - ✔✔selection by humans for breeding of useful traits from the
natural variation among different organisms.
✔✔Resistance - ✔✔ability to tolerate a chemical or disease.
✔✔Archebacteria - ✔✔prokaryotic live in harsh enviroments.
✔✔Eubacteria - ✔✔True bacteria.
✔✔Fungus - ✔✔decomposer.
✔✔Protist - ✔✔algae and protozones.
✔✔Gymnosperm - ✔✔cone bearing plants.
✔✔Angiosperm - ✔✔flowering plants.
✔✔Invertebrate - ✔✔animals without backbones.
✔✔Vertebrate - ✔✔animals with backbones.
✔✔Photosynthesis - ✔✔plants using sunlight to make food.
✔✔Producer - ✔✔makes it's own food.
✔✔Consumer - ✔✔must find and eat food.
✔✔Decomposer - ✔✔breaks down dead organisms.
✔✔Cellular Respiration - ✔✔how an organism uses food for energy.
✔✔Food Chain - ✔✔pathway of energy tranfer by feeding.
✔✔Food Web - ✔✔a diagram of feeding relationships.
✔✔Carbon Cycle - ✔✔the organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into
organisms and back again.
✔✔Nitrogen Cycle - ✔✔the transfer of nitrogen from the atmosphere to the soil, to living
organisms, and back to the atmosphere.
